In a Distant Isle: The Orkney Background of Edwin MuirScottish Academic Press, 1987 - 184 pages Om social velfærd i Storbritannien, USA, Frankrig, Vesttyskland, Sverige, Østtyskland og Indien |
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... land was not , for the crofters of the Highlands and islands , an attachment to an abstraction . For a townsman " the land " had become a metaphor for the nation gathered in one place . But when a crofter spoke of " the land " he had in ...
... land was not , for the crofters of the Highlands and islands , an attachment to an abstraction . For a townsman " the land " had become a metaphor for the nation gathered in one place . But when a crofter spoke of " the land " he had in ...
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... land was their's and that landlordism was a violent encroachment upon the divine rights of the people . " 18 " The landlords are only stewards , " proclaimed a Land Law Reform Association meeting in Caithness in 1894.19 The Napier ...
... land was their's and that landlordism was a violent encroachment upon the divine rights of the people . " 18 " The landlords are only stewards , " proclaimed a Land Law Reform Association meeting in Caithness in 1894.19 The Napier ...
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... land , which meant in law that it was owned jointly by the adjoining proprietors . But that is not how the common ... land is empty and that there is no cause left worth struggling for is to be found in Muir's poem , " Scotland's Winter ...
... land , which meant in law that it was owned jointly by the adjoining proprietors . But that is not how the common ... land is empty and that there is no cause left worth struggling for is to be found in Muir's poem , " Scotland's Winter ...
Table des matières
Introduction I | 1 |
References | 159 |
List of Sources | 170 |
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ation Autobiography ballads belief boyhood Burroughs Calvinism Calvinist Chapter childhood Church of Scotland congregation crofters Crofting Cursiter Dennison dream Edinburgh Edwin Muir Egilsay Eliade emigration Ernest Marwick evictions exile experience Fable farm farmers father Free Church George Mackay Brown George William Traill Glasgow Golden Age Highlands hill horses houses ibid innocence James Muir John Firth Kirkwall Burgh School labyrinth laird land landlord landscape lived M'Callum memory ministers Muir family Muir's Muir's poetry myth Napier Commission neighbours never nineteenth century Norse North Ronaldsay nostalgia Orcadian Orkney Archives Orkney Herald Paradise parish past peasant plough poem poet religion religious remembered rent road Robert Scarth Rousay Sanday Scots Scottish Journey Secession Church seems Selected Letters society songs Stanley Cursiter Statistical Account story suggests symbol teacher tenants theme traditional Trumland United Presbyterian Church wall Walter Traill Dennison Willa Muir writing wrote Wyre